His Excellency, Dr.Esam Alwagait is the Director of National Information Centre in Saudi Arabia. He has a collective experience of around 20 years in IT. Before Joining NIC, Dr. Alwagait was the CEO of National Digital Transformation Unit in Saudi Arabia. He worked also as the Deputy Minister for Technical Affairs at the ministry of foreign affairs. He worked in the ministry of education as the general supervisor for information technology. He was also the Dean of E-Transactions and Communications and also the Dean of E-Learning and Distance Education Deanship at KSU. Alongside those positions, Dr. Alwagait was chairman of the Saudi Computer Society for the period of 2015-2019. He was an associate professor at the College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS) at King Saud University (KSU) with research interests focused on Social Media and data mining. He has several publications about Twitter related issues in the Middle East region and Saudi Arabia.
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